By Shelly Newstead, author of 'The Busker's Guide to Anti-Discriminatory Practice'
We've still got some way to go in helping children to understand and appreciate diversity and equality. The vast majority of us are trying very hard to get it right, but we seem to have gone from one extreme to another in the past 20 years - from not really realising that children with physical impairments can take part in most, if not all activities, to now practically insisting in some settings that all children have to be able to do everything if it's to happen at all. From neither really knowing nor minding about Farid's religious needs and giving him ham, to asking his parents to come in and explain their 'funny food habits' to all the children. From being grateful that the boys are happy playing football, to making sure that a couple of girls play with them, whether the girls like it or not.
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